Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Here are the unique business elements that I expect to hear as a potential investor: Target market size and growth projections. Most investors won’t be interested unless you can show them a large market (billion-dollar opportunity), with a double-digit growth rate. Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy 145

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. Do they (or does their firm) have experience with intellectual property and patents?

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. Here are my thoughts on the right steps to prepare for these discussions and how to capitalize on your strengths: Declare and file your innovations early as intellectual property.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy Angel Investor 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Customers typically won’t switch to a new vendor for less than a twenty percent cost advantage.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Quantify the market opportunity in business terms. For example, “Nielsen projects that the market for smart phones will double every year for the next five years.” Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here are the motivation elements that investors expect to hear: Size and growth potential of the market opportunity. Your customers don’t care if you are targeting a billion-dollar market and growing at double-digit rates, but investors will skip small or shrinking opportunities. First to market” is not sustainable by a startup.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

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Intellectual Property 55

Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Intellectual Property. Bringing Innovation to Market. Growth Strategies >. Get and keep customers with affordable online marketing tools. Finance | Tuesdays.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Intellectual Property. Bringing Innovation to Market. Strategy and Planning >. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Finance | Tuesdays.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

The company just needs to be large enough to generate a profit to substantiate the annual costs of maintaining the ESOP. In profitable S-corporation ESOP companies, the tax savings should be more than enough to offset such annual costs. Many ESOPs are as small as 12-15 employees with less than $1 MM in annual revenue.

Stock 100

Stock Employee Private Equity Valuation 100

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Startup companies consume resources intelligently, put people to work in efficient ways, and produce market driven products at lower costs. The application fee is $50, which only partially offsets costs associated with processing applications. Description: Know your market, your competitors, and your idea.

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Founder Warrant San Francisco Intellectual Property 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

The single most important ingredient of success is not the idea, but having a team in place that has impeccable integrity, can iterate the product quickly, pivot the business model as necessary, and keep costs down in the process. This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Many other kinds of defenses also allow you to join the venture version of the “slow food” movement: robust intellectual property rights (say, obtained from a university partnership program), exclusive contracts with key suppliers or distributors, a prime physical location. — can indeed thrive without VCs ruining the party.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Dilution Bootstrapping 127

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 8, 2015

Other purchases are simply to generate revenue – allowing the buyer to streamline processes and cut costs by consolidating. Sales do occasionally fall through, and it’s essential that you have an exit strategy – a plan B in the event that you can’t make the sale. Find out what your buyer wants. Know that it’s a long process.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Exit Strategy Sales 60

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

What are you actually selling and how are you solving a problem (or “need”) for your market? Target Market. If there are multiple market segments for your business, this is where you flesh out the details. Marketing and Sales Plan. How are you going to reach your target market? Target market. Read more ».

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Expanding your business into a new market will be difficult if you lack the expertise in a secondary area. Sure, you can get up to speed eventually, perhaps by hiring the right people, or doing the training, but at what cost? The intellectual property ownership. Your exit strategy. And how long will it take?

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Technical Review Exit Strategy Due Diligence 60

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Target market (intended customers). Marketing and sales plan. Target market : What groups of people will want your box? Opportunity: Proving there’s a market for your subscription box. Target market. If you’re writing a Lean Plan, keep it shorter and think about making it easy to revisit and revise often.

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

You can talk about the current solutions in the market, but don’t spend too much time on the competitive landscape on this slide—you’ll have a chance to do that on a later slide. Slide 3: Target market and opportunity. What is the total market size and how do you position your company within the market?

Forecast 60

Forecast Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 60

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

PARE specializes in fixing and flipping residential properties by buying homes in need of repair, renovating them, and then putting them back on the market. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Target market.

El Paso 61

El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

what’s behind your financials, your go-to-market strategy, your current traction in the marketplace, your competition and why you’re better, your intellectual property or “secret sauce,” your exit strategy, etc.). What follows next are projections and marketing plans—every start-up has them of course.

Angel Investor 161

Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Your marketing plan. Existing businesses should have business plans that they maintain and update as market conditions change and as new opportunities arise. Existing businesses use business plans to strategically manage and steer the business, not just to address changes in their markets and to take advantage of new opportunities.

Business Plan 119

Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

With angels were now talking about venture fundingproper, so its time to introduce the concept of exit strategy.Younger would-be founders are often surprised that investors expectthem either to sell the company or go public. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

This article assumes we’re talking about a volatile industry like software or emerging markets where almost nothing is “well-known&# and company trajectories are all over the map.). To control a market. but this is flat wrong , as the failure of the Rules of Multiples demonstrates. Control equals money.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260